Abraham Robinson: The Creation of Nonstandard Analysis, a Personal and Mathematical Odyssey

by Joseph Warren Dauben

Book Overview

One of the most prominent mathematicians of the twentieth century, Abraham Robinson discovered and developed nonstandard analysis, a rigorous theory of infinitesimals that he used to unite mathematical logic with the larger body of historic and modern mathematics. In this first biography of Robinson, Joseph Dauben reveals the mathematician's personal life to have been a dramatic one: developing his talents in spite of war and ethnic repression, Robinson...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069105911X
• ISBN13: 9780691059112
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 579 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.8" x 10.0"